Patent classifications
A61K41/0042
Dynamic user-programmable materials including stimuli-responsive proteins
The present disclosure features a protein-polymer conjugate, including a multivalent polymer building block, a stimuli-responsive protein covalently conjugated to the multivalent polymer building block to provide a protein-polymer conjugate, wherein the protein undergoes a modification upon exposure to a predetermined stimulus, and the protein modification triggers a physical and/or chemical response in the protein-polymer conjugate.
NON-INVASIVE ENERGY UPCONVERSION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IN-SITU PHOTOBIOMODULATION
Products, compositions, systems, and methods for modifying a target structure which mediates or is associated with a biological activity, including treatment of conditions, disorders, or diseases mediated by or associated with a target structure, such as a virus, cell, subcellular structure or extracellular structure. The methods may be performed in situ in a non-invasive manner by placing a nanoparticle having a metallic shell on at least a fraction of a surface in a vicinity of a target structure in a subject and applying an initiation energy to a subject thus producing an effect on or change to the target structure directly or via a modulation agent. The nanoparticle is configured, upon exposure to a first wavelength λ.sub.1, to generate a second wavelength λ.sub.2 of radiation having a higher energy than the first wavelength λ.sub.1. The methods may further be performed by application of an initiation energy to a subject in situ to activate a pharmaceutical agent directly or via an energy modulation agent, optionally in the presence of one or more plasmonics active agents, thus producing an effect on or change to the target structure. Kits containing products or compositions formulated or configured and systems for use in practicing these methods.
Photosensitizer-peptide conjugate comprising degradable linker, and composition for photodynamic diagnosis or treatment comprising same
The present invention relates to a conjugate for photodynamic diagnosis or treatment in which a peptide binds with a photosensitizer via an intracellularly degradable linkage, and to a composition for photodynamic diagnosis or treatment including the same.
SPACER-MEDIATED CONTROL OF UNCAGING PHOTOCAGED MOLECULES
Provided herein, inter alia, are methods and compositions useful for treating a disease.
MACROMOLECULAR PRODRUGS FOR LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES AND USES THEREOF
Provided herein are compositions comprising macromolecular photocleavable prodrug compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, and isotopically enriched derivatives thereof. Also provided are methods, uses, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing a disease and/or condition (e.g., inflammatory disease, infectious disease, pain) in a subject, optionally comprising illumination of the compound, composition, or pharmaceutical composition with light of an absorption wavelength sufficient to cleave the bonds between each instance of L and each instance of X upon illumination with the light (e.g., light between approximately 200 nm to 500 nm).
Triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion system, and compositions and methods thereof for drug delivery
The invention provides a novel class of materials that possess triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion, compositions and methods of preparation and use thereof. The invention also relates to use of such materials and nanoparticles, for example, in stimulus-responsive, in situ delivery of biologically active agents.
DESIGN AND EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF LIPID-FLUORESCEIN CONJUGATES FOR CAR-T CELL THERAPY
The disclosure relates to lipid-fluorescein conjugates, compositions comprising same, and methods of synthesis and use, such as in the treatment of cancer.
PHOTO INDUCED CONTROL OF PROTEIN DESTRUCTION
By hijacking endogenous E3 ligase to degrade protein targets via the ubiquitin-proteasome system, PROTACs (PRoteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) provide a new strategy to inhibit protein targets that were previously regarded as undruggable. The compounds described herein comprise a photolabile group on PROTACs, enabling the degradation of protein targets in a spatiotemporally controlled manner By adding a photolabile caging group on ubiquitin recruiting moieties, light-inducible protein degradation was acheived. These opto-PROTACs display no activity in the dark, while restricted degradation can be induced at a specific time and rate by UVA-irradiation. Accordingly, these compounds provide light-controlled PROTACs and methods of using such compounds.
PHOTOACTIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR THERAPUETIC AGENT DELIVERY
In one aspect, photoactive compositions are described herein for targeted or selective delivery of therapeutic agents to diseased tissue and/or diseased sites within a patient. A photoactive composition comprises a membrane-based carrier and a photoactivated lytic component coupled to the membrane-based carrier, the photoactivated lytic component comprising a lysing agent and photolabile lytic blocking agent.
Non-invasive energy upconversion methods and systems for in-situ photobiomodulation
Products, compositions, systems, and methods for modifying a target structure which mediates or is associated with a biological activity, including treatment of conditions, disorders, or diseases mediated by or associated with a target structure, such as a virus, cell, subcellular structure or extracellular structure. The methods may be performed in situ in a non-invasive manner by placing a nanoparticle having a metallic shell on at least a fraction of a surface in a vicinity of a target structure in a subject and applying an initiation energy to a subject thus producing an effect on or change to the target structure directly or via a modulation agent. The nanoparticle is configured, upon exposure to a first wavelength λ.sub.1, to generate a second wavelength λ.sub.2 of radiation having a higher energy than the first wavelength λ.sub.1. The methods may further be performed by application of an initiation energy to a subject in situ to activate a pharmaceutical agent directly or via an energy modulation agent, optionally in the presence of one or more plasmonics active agents, thus producing an effect on or change to the target structure. Kits containing products or compositions formulated or configured and systems for use in practicing these methods.